The phrase "working the room" clearly means different things to people.

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate music director Francesco Lecce-Chong moved their proverbial tent to the Cathedral of St. John on Friday evening and worked the room beautifully with a program of Pärt, Bach and Bruckner that was perfectly tailored to the acoustics and ambience of the space. | Nov. 2, 2013»Read Full Article

The Milwaukee Film Festival has often included films for art-interested audiences. This year, the festival makes it official by launching a new Art + Artist series, which will spotlight eight documentaries about visual or performing arts.

Among the films are those that look at the lives or working habits of well-known artists such as Nan Goldin, Robert Crumb and Sol LeWitt, while others explore more everyday creativity, including a group of older fashionistas in New York and people dancing their hearts out in their living rooms. | Aug. 19, 2014»Read Full Article

Kilwins, a chain of chocolate and ice cream shops known for its Mackinac Island fudge, will open its first Milwaukee-area store in Glendale's Bayshore Town Center on Sept. 20, the shop announced Monday. | Aug. 18, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

This rendering shows Summerfest's plans for its administration headquarters at 639 E. Polk St.

Summerfest plans to spend up to $5.1 million to revamp its operations building and convert it into a 15,000 square foot administrative headquarters.

The building, located at 639 E. Polk St., is just a few hundred feet from Summerfest's South Gate. The building was being used as an operations center for the festival. | Aug. 18, 2014»Read Full Article(7)

Spring Green — Imagine unleashing all that barely restrained libido from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" — in which appetites must at least pretend to play by old-fashioned rules — and one gets an idea of what Tom Stoppard is up to in "Travesties," a scintillating homage to a writer Stoppard admires and resembles.

Both that resemblance and Stoppard's brilliance are on full display at American Players Theatre, where director William Brown's just-opened production of "Travesties" riffs on Brown's smashing, currently running APT production of "Earnest." Taken in tandem, they're the highlight of a strong APT season. | Aug. 18, 2014»Read Full Article

The summer doldrums are a great time for vacationers, beach bums and any folks who are happy with things maintaining a bit of sameness. For the folks in Magic!, that sameness and lack of change at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 means their debut hit single has just gotten bigger and bigger. And, it opens up new opportunities for the Canadian pop reggae outfit. See one of those special gigs below and then step into the Wayback machine to see which songs were on top this week back in 2007, 1997, 1987 and 1977.

Dan Epstein, author of "Stars & Strikes: Baseball & America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76," comes to Boswell Book Company, 2559 N. Downer Ave., at 7 p.m. to talk about his book. Epstein can also confidently speak about the Milwaukee Brewers and what they were up to that year but maybe not so much Hank, the Brewers dog. Epstein's book was featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Summer Reading List in May. | Aug. 18, 2014»Read Full Blog Post